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Jackson Palmer, Nathan Smith square off at USGA Amateur Four-Ball
Two of the top amateur players in Western Pennsylvania, Murrysville’s Jackson Palmer and Brookville’s Nathan Smith, will square off Tuesday at the United States Golf Association’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship at Chambers Bay, University Place, Wash. They meet in the Round of 16. Jackson and Davis Chatfield won 2-up against fourth...
Penguins fall in double overtime, 1 loss away from elimination
Even though they won the East Division title — and did so partially thanks to a 6-2-0 record against the New York Islanders during the regular season — the Pittsburgh Penguins did not anticipate an easy go of things in their first-round series with the fourth-seeded Islanders. They were fully...
Mt. Lebanon wrestler Mac Stout commits to Pitt
An injury kept Mt. Lebanon junior Mac Stout from defending his WPIAL Class AAA 189-pound wrestling title in 2021. But his success on the mat didn’t stop Stout from being heavily recruited by NCAA Division I programs. Stout announced on Instagram Sunday that he’s committing to Pitt, where his brother...
Offense hard to find for Penguins forwards Jake Guentzel, Jared McCann
You won’t find Jake Guentzel’s name in the NHL’s record books. That’s because the NHL quit publishing such tomes a handful of years ago in the pursuit of posting that information exclusively online. But Guentzel always will have a place in NHL history, having introduced himself to the hockey world...
Pitt notebook: Backup offensive lineman Liam Dick enters transfer portal
Liam Dick, recruited from Milton, Ontario, in the class of 2019, became the second Pitt offensive tackle to leave the program since the end of spring ball when he entered the NCAA transfer portal, according to Rivals.com. Dick, rated a two-star prospect by Rivals.com, redshirted in 2019 and did not...
AP source: Aaron Rodgers doesn’t attend Packers’ 1st day of OTAsVideo
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers wasn’t present for the first day of organized team activities Monday, according to a person familiar with the situation. These OTA sessions are voluntary, but Rodgers generally has participated in them in the past. ESPN first reported Rodgers wasn’t with the team on Monday....
Westmoreland Campus Clippings: Greensburg’s Goetz makes run at NCAA golf regional
Mark Goetz already had made school history by qualifying for the NCAA Regional round. But the senior golfer from West Virginia nearly took it a step further. Goetz, a Greensburg native who attended The Kiski School, played his way into the lead on the final day of the regional and...
Bruins solve Capitals in all facets to move on in NHL playoffs
WASHINGTON — Moments after embracing former Boston captain Zdeno Chara in the handshake line, Patrice Bergeron acknowledged he hadn’t thought much about what was different about winning his first series with the “C” on his chest. For Bergeron and the Bruins, it was just another step forward. “We’re a team...
‘Revitalized’ Gary Goga hired as Keystone Oaks boys basketball coach
Boys basketball coach Gary Goga, who built Peters Township into a WPIAL championship program in his 15 seasons there, is ready for another challenge. His next project: Keystone Oaks. Newly hired, Goga scheduled his first open gym for Monday night, the first step in building up a basketball program that...
Penguins goaltender Casey DeSmith misses morning skate
Penguins backup goaltender Casey DeSmith is not expected to dress for Game 5 of his team’s first-round series against the New York Islanders at PPG Paints Arena on Monday. He did not participate in Monday’s morning skate. Coach Mike Sullivan did not provide an update on DeSmith’s status. Should DeSmith...
Unfiltered: Tim Benz and Mark Madden preview Penguins-Islanders Game 5Video
The Pittsburgh Penguins host the New York Islanders at PPG Paints Arena on Monday night for Game 5 of their playoff series. After the Penguins lost Game 4 on Saturday on Long Island the series is tied at two games apiece. Mark Madden and Tim Benz preview the game and...
Brooks Koepka says injured knee hurt by rushing fans at PGA
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Brooks Koepka would’ve loved watching the end of Phil Mickelson’s historic win at the PGA Championship. But Koepka said his surgically repaired knee hurt too badly after the wild scene on the 18th hole. The four-time major champion suggested that a fan may have hit his...
First Call: Why JuJu Smith-Schuster is motivated for 2021; will Ravens or Patriots get Julio Jones?; odd praise for Aaron Donald
Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster is channeling the criticism he got last year. Will the New England Patriots or Baltimore Ravens land Julio Jones? Odd praise for Aaron Donald. And a big night for ex-Pittsburghers in the NHL playoffs. Better luck this year JuJu Smith-Schuster says he’s using last...
Madden Monday: Penguins ‘don’t have a playoff-style team anymore’
Yet again, the Pittsburgh Penguins are finding it difficult to score goals in the postseason. It’s been that way since they eliminated the Philadelphia Flyers in the first round of the 2018 playoffs. It looked like they may have figured things out offensively against the New York Islanders in a...
Tim Benz: Beatdown from Braves a warning of what’s to come for Pirates
Even when the 2021 Pirates got off to a surprisingly decent start by going 12-12 in their first 24 games, there was a tangible sense in Pittsburgh of, “Is this as good as it is going to get?” Well, the way things have gone lately, the answer appears to be...
Seton Hill gets top seed in NCAA Division II regional baseball tournament
Seton Hill baseball received the top seed in the NCAA Division II Atlantic Region despite losing the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship game Saturday to Bloomsburg. The Atlantic Region tournament will be played in Charleston, W.Va. beginning Thursday. The Griffins (35-6) will play the winner of the game between No....
Patrice Bergeron, Bruins finish off Capitals in 5 gamesVideo
WASHINGTON — Patrice Bergeron and David Pastrnak dazzled on offense, Tuukka Rask was rock solid in net and the Boston Bruins are moving on to the second round of the playoffs. Bergeron scored twice at crucial times after Pastrnak’s highlight-reel goal, Rask made 40 saves and the Bruins eliminated the...
Predators beat Hurricanes in double OT again to tie series at 2Video
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Luke Kunin scored his second goal at 16 minutes, 10 seconds of the second overtime, and the Nashville Predators beat the Carolina Hurricanes, 4-3, on Sunday to tie the first-round series 2-2. Kunin broke his stick and went to the bench for another. He then skated up...
Goetz, Jackson come up short in NCAA Regional tournament
West Virginia senior Mark Goetz and Notre Dame sophomore Palmer Jackson played well at the NCAA Division I Regionals last week. Goetz fell one spot short of winning the regional and advancing to the NCAA championship during final round at The Sagamore Golf Club in Noblesville, Ind. Goetz and Cole...
Pirates farm report for May 23, 2021: Ke’Bryan Hayes homers for Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS (Triple-A, 11-6) lost 5-4 to St. Paul (Twins). 3B Ke’Bryan Hayes (.200), playing the second game of a rehab assignment, had a double and home run with two strikeouts. Hayes had been out with a wrist injury since the second game of the season. The Indians rallied with three...
Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon slams brakes on youth movement with Indy 500 poleVideo
INDIANAPOLIS — Scott Dixon saw his team tinkering with his race car but asked no questions. When his three teammates made their Indianapolis 500 qualifying attempts, he didn’t want to hear their feedback. The six-time IndyCar champion and greatest driver of his generation wanted to be left alone to prepare...
Mickelson pulls stunner, becomes oldest major winner with PGA Championship titleVideo
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — The pandemonium closed in around Phil Mickelson as he walked toward the 18th green at Kiawah Island, where thousands upon thousands of euphoric fans wanted a piece of the history he delivered Sunday in the PGA Championship. For all the thrills and spills that have defined...
Ageless wonder Phil Mickelson wins PGA to be oldest major champVideo
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — Phil Mickelson has delivered so many thrills and spills over 30 years of pure theater that no one ever knows what he will do next. His latest act was a real stunner: A major champion at age 50. Mickelson captured his sixth major and by far...
Elliott wins rain-drenched race at Circuit of the AmericasVideo
AUSTIN, Texas — Chase Elliott managed the slipping and sliding, the standing water and the poor visibility that made it hard for drivers to see just a few feet in front of them. And when NASCAR’s debut at the Circuit of the Americas ended early because of poor racing conditions...
Penguins/Islanders notes: Brock Nelson a pest, series shifts back to Pittsburgh
All indications are that Brock Nelson is as polite and gregarious as his Minnesota background suggest he’d be. On the ice, though, it can be a different story — particularly when the stakes are highest during the Stanley Cup playoffs. The New York Islanders’ 6-foot-4 center, Nelson has seemingly found...
